Date: 2009-03-08 12:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nyssa-p.livejournal.com
HAH!

Sorry to not be impressive, but I haven't read any cept for some chapters from the Bible. I did read half of Thomas More's Utopia a little less than a decade ago though. That count? :P

Date: 2009-03-08 01:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanwilliams.livejournal.com
I reckon it's a bloody good effort!

Date: 2009-03-08 01:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nyssa-p.livejournal.com
:P Then I'll finally admit I haven't read one of your babies yet, and you'll uninvite me to Natcon!

Luckily everyone gave me money for my birthday, so I can buy books now (unless I can get them free to review...but hey, I think you'd rather like the money!).

Date: 2009-03-08 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanwilliams.livejournal.com
Too many books--too little time! All my friends are automatically forgiven for not having enough time to get my books, because I have the same problem in turn with my writer friends. As long as someone out there is buying our books, we'll all survive. :-)

Date: 2009-03-08 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nyssa-p.livejournal.com
Hrm I wonder what would be unforgivable to you... XD

Date: 2009-03-08 07:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanwilliams.livejournal.com
That's a very good question! I must ponder it.

Date: 2009-03-08 12:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mireille21.livejournal.com
My problem in answering that question is in being able to remember if I did actually read that book. or did I just read another one by the same author? Or see the film? Or a very poor imitation? etc. Too many books, they all begin to blur.

Date: 2009-03-08 11:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanwilliams.livejournal.com
I feel your pain. Some books, though, are burned in my brain, for better or for worse, as all books should be. The worst thing a book can be is forgettable.

ah, but have you read all three of those

Date: 2009-03-08 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozdragonlady.livejournal.com
War and Peace ...sometime in my 20s
Ulysses ... more than once, at uni 20 years ago
Bible .. all the way through - at school in UK, we had a brilliant evangelical/anglican lay preacher for a teacher who gave us a very solid education - versus indoctrination :)

Re: ah, but have you read all three of those

Date: 2009-03-08 11:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanwilliams.livejournal.com
I've never read W&P. Meaning to, but not yet!

The Bible is a fascinating book. So many great stories (if you ignore all the boring bits) and a great source of ideas.

Date: 2009-03-08 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haloumi.livejournal.com
Given that 1984 is a mere pamphlet, in size but not stature, compared to the others, I'm amazed that people claim to have read it when reading it would be relatively straightforward. I must confess that I have never read War and Peace because I'm still waiting for Snoopy to finish it, reading it at a word a day*.

I realise that Riddley Walker is a little too obscure to make the top of a list like that but I would have thought that a very likely book to claim to have read, rather than having actually read.

(I must also confess that, while I have read Ulysses, I remember surprisingly little of it. It is my intention to go back and read it again. After War and Peace.)

* Which will happen about 1533 years^ from the time that he started. It's no wonder Woodstock became irked.

^ And for those of you who haven't read Riddley Walker+, this gives you the time to have an entire decaying post-apocalyptic civilisation or two and go over to Snoopy's place and he would still be reading.

+ Which I recommend. #

# Reading the book, that is. I suppose that I could have just written 'A book which I recommend' but what is the point of a footnote if not to provide some immutability in a mutable world? **

** Apart from, of course, the actual point of footnotes.

Date: 2009-03-08 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haloumi.livejournal.com
*** A book that I recommend. Damn it.

Date: 2009-03-10 12:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanwilliams.livejournal.com
These footnotes are making me thirsty! :-)

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Date: 2009-03-08 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] murasaki-1966.livejournal.com



I have read 1984, but only because it was the novel I had to study for the my HSC (in, you guessed it, 1984). I read a lot of classics because I did English and Australian Literature as a side stream to my librarianship degreee. That's when I fell in love with Austen and Trollope. Haven't read War and Peace yet. I'm waiting for retirement for that one.

I wonder how many people have read some of the great books of Australian Literature, eg For the Term of his natural life, Robbery under arms, Such is Life(a personal favourite, Wildcat falling or Wake in Fright?

Re: Re=posted due to bad formatting

Date: 2009-03-08 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanwilliams.livejournal.com
I was in the Class of 1984 too (remember that godawful old movie?) but didn't do English. I dropped it as a fast as I could after Year 11 for force-feeding me too much Steinbeck et al. Didn't enjoy it at all.

I've only read some Australian classics because I felt quite alienated by the them when I was younger. They spoke to a very different Australia than the one I knew. Where were the magnificent desserts, the tropical forests, etc? I'd probably appreciate them more now, but time is always the issue. Sigh.

Date: 2009-03-08 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] murasaki-1966.livejournal.com
Please tell us about the Gary Numan concert.

Date: 2009-03-08 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanwilliams.livejournal.com
The venue was amazing and he was great, of course. Lots of new material mixed with some great old classics ("We Are So Fragile", a b-side from the Replicas years was a great bonus) but the mix was very muddy and some of the great synth work was buried under the grungy guitars. The show I saw in LA in 2006 was considerably superior in that respect. Still, very glad I made the trip!

Didn't meet him afterwards. Hung out around the stage door for a while then wandered off to get something to eat instead. I gather he came out about a minute later--d'oh!

Date: 2009-03-09 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] murasaki-1966.livejournal.com
Never mind. One day you'll meet him.

Thanks for the CD of his music. I didn't realize how good his music was. I was stuck on "Are friend electric" Serves me right.

Date: 2009-03-10 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanwilliams.livejournal.com
I did meet him in LA, but I had drunk entirely too much beforehand so that doesn't count. Whoops.

And hurrah! Glad you enjoyed the music. He's done so many different things down the years, and I like nearly all of it.

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